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- 491: Robert E. Lee
- ... weapons and is thought to be the world's leading expert on this and artillery strategies. He is a well known author of military history, and works as a weapons evaluator in addition to his writing. Robert E. Lee was born in Stratford, Virginia on January 19, 1807. His father, Henry Lee, had achieved fame with Washington's army as "Lighthorse Harry,"and it was a fame that rested not only ... welfare. A man with no sense of responsibility to his affairs, Henry Lee eventually ended up in jail for a year for non-payment of his debts. Upon his release, he spent every waking moment writing his memoirs, with no regard for his family at all. Lee's mother was Ann Carter Lee, daughter of Charles Carter. She was an invalid, but possessed a strong and beautiful character, and Robert grew ... Lee family, although one time the family had sued to get it back and was granted an indemnity. On the outbreak of the Mexican War, in 1846, Lee was appointed to General Winfield Scott's personal staff. He proceeded to Brazos on January 16, 1847. The General was deep in preparations for the battle at Vera Cruz. This was to be Lee's first experience under actual fire. Because of ...
- 492: Robert E. Lee
- ... weapons and is thought to be the world's leading expert on this and artillery strategies. He is a well known author of military history, and works as a weapons evaluator in addition to his writing. Robert E. Lee was born in Stratford, Virginia on January 19, 1807. His father, Henry Lee, had achieved fame with Washington's army as "Lighthorse Harry,"and it was a fame that rested not only ... welfare. A man with no sense of responsibility to his affairs, Henry Lee eventually ended up in jail for a year for non-payment of his debts. Upon his release, he spent every waking moment writing his memoirs, with no regard for his family at all. Lee's mother was Ann Carter Lee, daughter of Charles Carter. She was an invalid, but possessed a strong and beautiful character, and Robert grew ... Lee family, although one time the family had sued to get it back and was granted an indemnity. On the outbreak of the Mexican War, in 1846, Lee was appointed to General Winfield Scott's personal staff. He proceeded to Brazos on January 16, 1847. The General was deep in preparations for the battle at Vera Cruz. This was to be Lee's first experience under actual fire. Because of ...
- 493: Electronic Money
- ... convenience. I buy gas there and find this method of paying very convenient, especially if I am in a hurry. I also think debit cards are very convenient elsewhere as well as less expensive than writing checks for everything. Generally I only write checks for monthly bills. With the rise in technology I could opt for most of my monthly bills to be paid for through electronic transfer also. I am not sure why I have not chosen to reduce my check writing further, other than I am still a little leery of someone having access to my bank account. When using the debit card at an ATM machine, money is attainable from a checking or savings account ... S CYBERCOIN SERVICE CyberCash created the CyberCoin service which allows a consumer to use an existing bank account to transfer money to an electronic wallet. The wallet is a graphical software program installed on a personal computer. The wallet supports multiple credit cards including Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. A log is part of the wallet which records all activities. CyberCash offers their services totally free to consumers. Obtaining ...
- 494: Spelling And Differently - Analysis
- ... relationship between a daughter and mother. In the story the narrator flashes back to a time in Rose's career when she was in a play with her breast exposed. Flo showed her displeasure by writing her a letter that said "shame" and adding that if her father was not already dead, he would wish that he was (Oates 154). Yet, the reader feels that Rose is still trying to earn ... most recent work has addressed the problems of middle age, of women alone and the elderly. Characteristic of her style is the search for some revelatory gesture by which an event is illuminated and given personal significance" (Blodgett 1). In "Spelling," Munro demonstrates this revelatory gesture by the incident with the wig. Near the end of the story it is revealed that Flo has a humorous personality. Her dementia appears to ... pouches or jowls or alcoholic flush or sardonic droop of defeat. He is still thin, and straight, and sharp shouldered, still fresh smelling, spotless, appropriately, expensively dressed"(Ford 191). The descriptive view of Munro's writing is shared by the Book Review Digest which stated: "Ms. Munro is a writer of extraordinary richness and texture....Her imagery stuns or wounds. Her sentences stick to the rough surfaces of our world. ...
- 495: The Bell Jar
- People's lives are shaped through their success and failure in their personal relationships with each other. The author Sylvia Plath demonstrates this in the novel, The Bell Jar. This is the direct result of the loss of support from a loved one, the lack of support and encouragement, and lack of self confidence and insecurity in Esther's life in the The Bell Jar. It was shaped through her success and failures in her personal relationships between others and herself. Through life, we often lose someone we loved and cared deeply for and supported us through life. This is demonstrated by the loss of a loved one when Esther's ... the confidence to do the work she wanted to do. Therefore, Esther did not have the self assurance to fulfill her aspirations in life. Esther had submitted an essay in order to get into a writing course at a particular college. "... you didn't make that writing course... I had expected it." (Sylvia Plath page 93) After finding out that she had not made the writing course, Esther thought to ...
- 496: E. M. Forster
- Many aspects of writing catch a reader's attention and keep one interested in a book. E. M. Forster put many of these aspects in his books making them well written and quite interesting. He combined great characters, a decent story line, and his prolific knowledge of writing to make his books readable and enjoyable. E. M. Forster was born on January 1, 1879, in London, England. After an education at Tonbridge School and King's College, Cambridge, he spent a year traveling ... with a View. As a pacifist Forster wouldn't fight in the First World War, instead he worked for the International Red Cross. Two years later Forster moved to India where he worked as a personal secretary for Mahaharajah of Dewas. This resulted in his novel, A Passage to India. When he returned to England he wrote many critiques and articles but never wrote any more novels. E. M. Forster ...
- 497: 1920s And 1930s With Reference
- ... across the bay” (Fitzgerald 83), and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance. Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Later, in the scene at the hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this ... home. Jay cannot accept that the past is gone and done with. Jay is sure that he can capture his dream with wealth and influence. He believes that he acted for a good beyond his personal interest and that should guarantee success. Nick attempts to show Jay the fact that his dream will not come true, but Jay is too stubborn to believe that he is not correct. This shows the ... and Fitzgerald expect the reader to feel sympathy for the main character, and when his dream is not to be, they almost want the reader to feel the same discouragement and loss that they are writing about. The novels both regard dreams as a waste of time and only leading to ones downfall. They reflect that the period of despair and isolationism that was felt in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
- 498: Taking The Hard Road
- ... Where otherwise the only source of information of the past would be statistics and those of historians, the autobiographies give the reader a feel of what the working classes were going through in a more personal way. The conditions in which they lived and the politics or beliefs they lived by can be examined for differences or qualities they might share. Unfortunately, there are many difficulties in autobiographies. The working class rarely wrote autobiographies themselves. Often the autobiographers were, although they were classified as working-class, more then the average worker. They had a greater grasp of their reading and writing skills then the average laborer and usually thought themselves exemplary enough in some way to justify an autobiography. Maynes reveals, “The views they [the autobiographers] reveal come from a very particular location within working-class ... page four, Sebastian Commissaire is quoted as declaring in his autobiography, “workers don’t write memoirs.” Similarly, in order for a person to write an autobiography, he or she must have a particular reason begin writing in the first place. The numbers of autobiographies rise with the amount of influence of political and labor organizations (39). So there are difficulties in obtaining an autobiography by someone who has a full ...
- 499: Analysis 2
- Franz Kafka was a German writer. In his life, he had many experiences in his personal life that influenced his writing. One of his works in which he reflected his personal experiences was "Metamorphosis." "Metamorphosis" is about struggling to be accepted by others, as Kafka did in his life. "Metamorphosis" shows many examples of how Kafka's life influenced his writing. One example of how ...
- 500: Bilingual Education...”Si” or No?
- ... wish that his teachers would speak Spanish in the classroom--he thought that maybe he “would have felt much less afraid” (229). But he then realizes that his family life is a more intimate and personal one, and he is in school to learn his public identity (229). These examples help to form Rodriguez’s good character and make his argument effective. The tone and style makes Rodriguez’s pathetic appeals stronger. He uses many different writing devices in order to give his essay a warm, friendly feel. He uses strong descriptive language in the following scene, when his parents told him only English would be spoken in the house: At first ... if he should call them as mama and papa or what “neighborhood kids called their parents--’mother’, ‘father’, ‘ma’, ‘papa’, ‘pa’, ‘dad’, ‘pop’...” (232-33). Aside from the colloquialisms, Rodriguez uses good word choice and writing style, which is done by using metaphors. One such as “confused as the threads of blue and green oil in the puddle next to my shoes” (227) helped describe his father’s struggle with ...
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